Hotel Paradiso (1966)
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block and he needs a new play, so he takes an opportunity to observe his upper class neighbors of 1900 Paris. There is Monsieur Boniface with hard domineering wife Angelique; also, Monsieur Cotte with beautiful but neglected wife Marcelle. Henri Cotte traces architectural anomalies (mostly "ghost" sounds in the drain pipes) and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso, which happens to be the chosen romantic rendezvous spot of Marcelle and Monsieur Boniface. One wife, two husbands, a nephew, and the perky Boniface maid, all at this 'by the hour' hotel and consummation of the affair is, to say the least, severely compromised (not the least by a police raid). All of this is under Feydeau's eye, and his play is the 'success fou' of the next season.
Director: Peter Glenville
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Alec Guinness as Benedict Boniface |
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Gina Lollobrigida as Marcelle Cotte |
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Robert Morley as Henri Cotte |
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Peggy Mount as Angelique Boniface |
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Ann Beach as Victoire |
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Douglas Byng as Martin |
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Derek Fowlds as Maxime |
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David Battley as George |
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Peter Glenville as Georges Feydeau |
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Akim Tamiroff as Hotel Proprietor |
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Eddra Gale as Hotel Guest |
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Robertson Hare as The Duke |
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Leonard Rossiter as Inspector |
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Darío Moreno as The Turk |
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Marie Bell as La Grande Antoinette |
| Directing | Peter Glenville | Director |
| Writing | Peter Glenville | Writer |
| Writing | Jean-Claude Carrière | Writer |
| Writing | Maurice Desvallières | Writer |
| Writing | Georges Feydeau | Writer |
| Editing | Anne V. Coates | Editor |
| Production | Peter Glenville | Producer |
| Sound | Laurence Rosenthal | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Henri Decaë | Director of Photography |
| Production | Irene Howard | Casting |
| Art | François de Lamothe | Production Design |
| Art | Robert Christidès | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Odette Berroyer | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Louis Bonnemaison | Makeup Artist |
